Neal Gabler might not look like an athlete, but don't be surprised to see him lining up for the long jump at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. For on this evening's Fox News Watch, Neal took a leap of logic of Beamonesque proportions.

According to Gabler, the fact that a drunken Gibson made anti-Semitic remarks retroactively proves that his 'Passion of the Christ' was anti-Semitic too.

Here's how the liberal media critic put it:

"The interest here is 'The Passion.' It made something like $400 million. It was accused of being anti-Semitic. The mainstream press didn't really want to touch it. Because they were afraid of being clobbered from the right. Now Mel Gibson has outed himself. And it gives the mainstream press an opportunity - not just to focus on the fact that Mel Gibson was drunk and said anti-Semitic remarks - but that The Passion itself was anti-Semitic. That Mel Gibson has a pattern of anti-Semitism. And that's what makes it a story."

Or at least, a story line that Gabler devoutly hopes the MSM will pursue.

Applying Gabler's logic to the Stained One: "Now Bill Clinton has outed himself. And it gives the mainstream press an opportunity - not just to focus on the fact that Bill Clinton was having sex in the Oval Office and lying about it on national television - but that his presidency itself was a lie. That Bill Clinton has a pattern of lying and abusing women. And that's what make it a story."

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posted on 08/05/2006 7:23:29 PM PDT
by eggman
(Democrat party - The black hole of liberalism from which no rational thought can escape.)

Well, as time has gone on it becomes more and more apparent what all of the horror over Mel's remarks was really about. I didn't see this when Hillary made her comment about Jewish people, nor when Brando made his. susie

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posted on 08/05/2006 7:26:44 PM PDT
by brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)

The amazing thing about antisemitism is nonobservant Jews seem the most worried while the observant, or Orthodox, Jews seem to take it in stride. At least in the US.

Huge sums are raised yearly from Jews to fight antisemitism. IMHO the problem is antisemitism is the only real "Jewishness" that many nonobservant Jews have. Approximately half of all nonobservant Jewish men marry gentiles. The result is "Jewishness" needs some boundary to defend--antisemitism is perfect for this.

This is absurd, all it proves is that Gibson, the man who made the Passion film, is anti-Semitic.

Doesn't even prove that. Look at how the American secular Jews attacked his movie "the Passion," consider (subsequently) what he might have encountered earlier that evening (and forgotten) out&about in a local frequented by (secular, liberal, and highly anti-Gibson) Jews... you've got no proof here. Evidence, certainly, but proof? No.

He's made a decent apology. (Did we ever get the equivalent from Clinton? I do not think so.) But this is politics and not polite society; the Left will never let go of this.

Great analogy, eggman. Neil Gabler, the "self-appointed media critic"... ( Who ever heard of him before he was on this show... and that tired dribble-puss Jane Hall (someone give this hag a bib) are sooo over... I'd like to tell Neil where he can stick that finger he's always holding up to the camera.

Gabler shouldn't be labeled as a 'media writer' but as a 'liberal agitator' or 'liberal media activist'. He is a five year old child who has to have the last word and will just talk louder than anybody else who disagrees with him or makes better sense.

I would be thrilled to get a face to face with that metrosexual twit and b#tch slap him intellectually in a way that nobody on TV feels appropriate to do.

I didn't particularly like Passion. Besices featuring too much graphic violence, it failed to mention the Resurrection. However, if this film is Judeophobic, then so is the Holy Bible--including the Old Testiment, which foretells the events portrayed in the film.

They call him anti-semitic, but they don't talk about what he actually said, and the circumstances it was said in.

The cop who pulled him over was Jewish.

I imagine had the cop been black, Mr. Gibson might have made some anti-negro remarks. Alcohol has a way of making you brave, uninhibited, and stupid, all at once.

Although we humans usually have our prejudices well hidden, different things can make them come out.

What Mel said was something that he would likely never say if not drunk, and I imagine he was attacking the cop personally because the cop was attacking him personally by pulling him over and arresting him for DUI.

Now, I have not see this particular reporter write a column declaring the nutjob in Iran an anti-semitic, even though that person said that Israelites must be removed from the face of the earth.

And I haven't seen that reporter write any columns about how well the IDF is doing against the Hezb'allah, or how great Coalition forces are doing against the terrorists.

And he should. Going by the name I would say the reporter is Jewish.

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posted on 08/06/2006 12:48:51 AM PDT
by UCANSEE2
(Target the leaders. Once the head is gone, the body will die.)

What a shame that Gabler basically makes the statement that The Gospel (nee' The Passion) is anti-Semitic.

Gibson's only problem is a poor choice of friends, who would allow him to drive drunk, and perhaps the early stages of simple, banal and garden variety alcoholism, which far from the plain myth of bringing out "the truth about what a person believes," almost always, when confronted, aims outward for excuses for personal irresponsibility.

The shame of it is that fact that Gabler, liberal Banshee that he is, has to his credit a really interesting and scholarly book about the role of entertainment and the cult of celebrity that I am now reading for the second time. I would still highly recommend Life: The Movie, How Entertainment Conquered Reality as a wonderful American history of the Cult of the Celebrity and how Entertainment has become "the coin of the realm."

If only he could keep his ill-informed ideas about the behavior of alcoholics and potential alcoholics as much to himself as he managed to lighten his rare cheap shots at Conservatives in that great book!

Riddle me this, Batman. How are Mel's drunken comments any worse than Gabler's sober accusations? At least Mel has an excuse. What bothers me most is that Gabler engaged in the politics of personal destruction and no one on the panel challenge him on it.

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